Elaine Chew
Operations Researcher • Pianist
Professor of Engineering | King’s College London ( Department of Engineering | School of Biomedical Engineering & Imaging Sciences )
Founder, Director | Music Theranostics Laboratory
Music science : Music information research, computational music structure analysis, performance science, music perception and cognition, music representation
Mathematical science : Data science, visualisation, sonification, mathematical modelling, optimisation, probability & statistics, signal processing
Cardiovascular science : Neurocardiology, autonomic response, time/frequency domain signal analysis, ECG sonification
Recent Publications
a. Seeing music’s effect on the heart. EHJ, 2024, 45(41): 4359–4363 (amongst most-read recent articles in EHJ)
b. Putting (One’s) Heart Into Music. EHJ, 2021, 42(28): 2721–2724 (top 10 most downloaded EHJ Cardiopulse article in 2021)
c. How music can literally heal the heart. Scientific American (Op), 18 Sep 2021
1. High BP inhibits cardiovascular responsiveness to music, Sci Rep 2025 (Pope et al.)
2. Modelling musicians’ RR intervals using music features & Interpretation Maps, Front Psych 2025 (Soliński et al.)
3. Music based GCNN diagnosis of hypertension, Comp in Card 2025 (Pal et al.)
4. Baseline autonomic states assoc with distinct music-physiology response patterns, EHJ IMP 2026 (Soliński et al.)
5. Autonomic Entrainment to Music Structure in Verdi Opera, EHJ IMP 2026 (Cotic et al.)
Music Engineering + Cardiovascular Science
1. Falling Walls Breakthrough of the Year 2023 (Art & Science) : Breaking the Wall to Musical Medicine
2. MIT Alumni Association : Slice of MIT(Art & Science) : Music to Make the Heart Sing
3. BBC One Morning Live : Music Heart Health with Ben Gernon
(Contact EC for a private link if you cannot view BBC iPlayer from your country)
Heartbeat Music
1. Arrhythmia Suite : abnormal heart rhythms to music by EC (2017–2021)
2. Little Etudes for Piano based on aberrations of cardiac electrophysiology (music by EC, descriptions by PDL)
3. Stolen Rhythms on the CosmoNote citizen science platform for interactive viewing, hearing, annotating of music and linked biosignals (cosmonote software engineer: Lawrence Fyfe)
4. Mouse #1730 at 6 months and 30 months : heartbeat music by Chew, Tagirova, Maltsev, Lakatta (2023)
Computational Modelling
1. Papers we love: Decoding the sensuality in music: How maths helps us understand why music moves people
2. Le Monde and Reportage CNRS: Le Piano Virtuose: A short film about ERC COSMOS (English version)(with IRCAM COSMOS team)
3. ARTE.TV : 42, la réponse à presque tout (the answer to almost everything) : Entendons-nous tous pareil ? (Do we all hear the same ?)
4. Los Angeles Philharmonic Inside the Music: real-time tonal analysis & visualisation of 18th variation in Rachmaninoff’s Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini on musa_rt (software engineer: Alex François)